Anantkumar Hegde - Parliament

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

LOK SABHA

UNSTARREDQUESTION NO: 408

ANSWERED ON: 0.12.2010

CHILD MORTALITY RATE

(a) whether as per the repon. of the Registrar General of India and a British Medical Journal 2 lahs children aged below five years died in the country in the year 200 alone;

(b) if so, the reaction of the Government thereto;

(d) the corrective measures taen proposed to be taen by the Government in this regard?

ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF HEALTH FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI GHULAM NABI AAD)

(a) Yes.

(b) The Government of India has launched National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) under which the Reproductive and Child Health Programme (RCH) II comprehensively integrates interventions that improve child health and addresses factors contributing to morbidity and mortality.

(c) As per the Sample Registration System (SRS) 2008, published by Registrar General of India (RGI) the under five child mortality rate is 6 per 1000 live birth. This indicates that about 6. of children born alive die before attaining the age of years.

d) The ey components of child health programme which help reduce child morbidity and mortality are as follows: Establishment of Special Newborn Care Units, Newborn Stabiliation Units and Newborn Care Corners at health facilities.

Integrated management of neonatal and childhood Illnesses (IMNCI) and Pre- Service Integrated

management of neonatal and childhood Illnesses (IMNCI)

Facility Based Integrated management of neonatal and childhood Illnesses (IMNCI).

Early detection and appropriate management of Diarrhoeal disease

Early detection and appropriate management of Acute Respiratory Infections and other infections Navaat Shishu Surasha Karyaram (NSSK), a programme for Basic newborn care and resuscitation Provition of health Infant and young child feeding processes including breast feeding

Immuniation Vitamin A supplementation and Iron and Folic Acid supplementation.

Establishment of Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres